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A lot happened over the weekend.

Now I’m left with the legs piece to complete PLD relic AF set.

Then I took a few hours sleep and joined my friend’s limbus LS at their Proto-Omega fight.

Very cool looking mecha. Hmmm, is Proto-Omega a mech?

Parrying at 192! I survived an extra 5 seconds after getting hate from Proto-Omega.

We won on our first try. Killed it in the last 3 minutes. Those last 3 minutes were very intense as Proto-Omega still have 10~15% of HP left. We used chainspell stun, invincible during those last 3 minutes, BLMs went nuking and we killed it.

2 Omega’s eyes dropped but I lost lot on both. I looked up the Homam set and it’s pretty good to get for my PLD and DRK job.

Warped back to Al Zahbi, just in time for a LV5 Undead Swarm besieged.

By this time, 5 generals were down and the door to the Astral Candescene was open. Lamia No.9 almost entered but somehow someone managed to pull it away to the main open area. I went into the room for a bit of sightseeing~

We won in the end. Close call.

Then I went to take a nap. And joined a friend who invited me to level with his SAM. He had 2 other friends, a MNK and a RDM. In our 3 hours PT, we racked up 20,000 experience points. +2000 because I used my empress band twice (Used it at 1/10 in Jeuno and recharged it before we set off).

Hit LV73 in this PT~♪

Adaman Cuirass (Body), Adaman Cuisses (Legs), Koenig Schaller (Head).

…is making me more and more impatient!

I’ve never liked the idea of travelling because of all the hassles and expensive air tickets and other expenses. But because of this recent planning, I’ve been searching the net for all sorts of information I can find.

After looking at many photos and reading about other people’s experiences, I may have found a way to spend my yearly vacation instead of staying at home and playing FFXI all through the week.

I’ve read a Singaporean’s story that he spent $1200 during his trip to Japan, but that was because he stayed at a friend’s home there. I can afford to spend $2000 just for a week of sightseeing in Japan. $2000 is close to how much I get paid a month.

Previously, the thought of going to a faraway place where nobody knows me, and where I don’t speak their language, scares me. Thinking back to my first overseas trip to Paris, I was so scared. But for some reason, I don’t anymore. Perhaps it’s because it’s Japan, a place I’ve always wanted to visit.

First things first, Qutrubs are weak to slashing. My 300% TP Spiral Hell did 3500. But because these are WEAK TO SLASHING, it’s surprising anymore so I didn’t take a screenshot, lol.

Considering they’re undead, they are probably weak to light, but I’ve seen a 3x damage darkness SC where it went over 11k points of damage. It’s screenshot only but since it was besieged, I trust it to be authentic.

My 100% TP Spinning Slash averages 2000~2500 on these. I tried a 300% Ground Strike before we disband but the result was a disappointing 2600. It could be that this qutrub used it’s defense up ability and my RDM haven’t dispelled it. And also, my Last Resort JA wasn’t ready to be used. 

After this little merit PT with friends, I got my 3rd merit and spent it to learn Diabolic Eye. This new group 2 merit JA reduces your max HP by 15% and increases your accuracy.

I don’t know how much accuracy it increases but looking at Vassago’s Scyhte (-5%HP +5 Accuracy) I’m going to guess my accuracy gets increased by 15. The whole effect lasts 4 minutes, which is pretty disappointing. Perhaps SE wanted to see how it’ll affect the gameplay before increasing the duration?

Bought a bunch of CDs from CDJapan.co.jp again. I’m going to log the whole process here for interested Singaporeans.

Firstly, a brief introduction on the process from the beginning.

I registered an account with vPost to have them bring in my CDs at a cheap rate of around $15 SGD. You will need to fax them a copy of your Identification Card to have your account authenticated.

Once your account is ready, you will be given an address in Japan for all your orders to be sent to. You will also have to use a special name (example: Wyred VP123456) for the vPost office in Japan to identify that the package belongs to you.

When your vPost account is ready, register another account with cdJapan and use the shipping details that vPost has provided you with. After that, you’re ready to shop. Browse for the CDs you want and add them to your cart. Proceed to checkout, you will also be asked to enter your credit/debit card info if you haven’t entered them.

After completing the checkout process, cdJapan will send you an invoice email with the list of your orders. Forward this email to vPost and they will process it within 3 working days. You will also receive an auto-reply from vPost to confirm that they have received your invoice.

cdJapan will ship your order within 3-5 days if the CDs are available. Or longer if there’s no stock or the CDs have not been released yet. When vPost receives the package, you will be notified and asked to make payment for the shipping charges before they ship the package back to Singapore.

It will take a few more working days for the package to be delivered to you. I’ve put my work address in vPost as the address to ship the package to since there’s no one at home most of the time.

Log:

So yea, whole process takes 2 weeks.

WTF is with product names starting with "i"? Perhaps I should label this water bottle sitting on my desk at work: iBottle.

Anyway, last Monday, I headed down to Funan IT Mall after work to buy my copy of Harvest Moon DS from Gamescore. After buying, I took the escalator down to level 1 and proceeded to the exit. I walked passed the Osim shop and saw their salesman sitting on their iGallop product.

He looked at me, I immediately but naturally looked to the other direction and began giggling. I couldn’t hold my laughter.

Youtube links:
Official TV Advertisement

Unoffocial 

Note that there is no level cap but SJ is removed.

I hit Vorpal Blade just as he used Invincible. ( >_<)

Long way indeed.

I can’t believe the record set was by an RMT. ヽ(｀Д´)ノ

Planning a trip to Japan with 2 other friends. None of us speak Japanese, I can read/type a little only. And it will be our first trip to Japan.

This entry will cover all the details!

Lodging: Tokyo Hostels 3500Yen/Night

When: February – March 2007

Budget per person: Minimum: $2000 SGD, to include Air tickets, lodging, travel and food.

Air tickets: For 3 people

Singapore Airlines: $3100 SGD round trip, 8 hour flight.

Malaysia Airlines: $2760 SGD round trip, 11 hour flight.

Lodging: 21,000 Yen for 6 nights, $282 SGD.

Travel:

Food:

Emergency Use: $200 SGD.

General Schedule:

Resources:
Japan Travel Guide

Yahoo Currency Converter

Wikipedia

Singapore Embassy in Tokyo

Shinkansen

HWZ Forums Thread

Anyone with or without experience, feel free to contribute! ヽ(´―｀)ノ

I will update this thread as I find out more details.

(*´д｀*)ハァハァ

Does anyone else think her legs should be a little more longer?

Source

GitS:SAC S1 POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT!

In GitS:SAC, there was one episode near the end of the season where a huge mech shot Kusanagi , destroying her left arm, the mech then stepped on her with it’s feet, crushing her. Her subordinates arrived just in time to save her with one shot from their huge rifle.

As she recovered, she shouted for the rifle and with one arm, she continously unloaded several shots at the mech under her, reloading after each shot with only one hand.

You can feel the anger from her during this scene. This will be one of the my favourite anime scenes, one other, is an impressive fight scene between Asuka and the EVA:Mass Production series in Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Had a lot of internet disconnections. The ADSL signal on my modem would light up and in 3 minutes, go off. At first I called up Singnet, my ISP. Firstly, a woman answered and asked me to troubleshoot it by connecting the modem directly to the wall without a microfilter. She said if it didn’t solve the problem, she would assign a technician to come to my house and do a line test.

The problem didn’t go away. So I called again, this time, a man. To keep the story short, he checked the logs and could tell I kept disconnecting. So he assigned a tech to come on Tuesday to do the line test. I was thinking, what if the problem went away Tuesday morning and came back Tuesday night?

I give up anyway. This isn’t the first time they’ve been giving me an instable connection.

So I decided to open up my modem since it’s 3 years old, warranty’s probably expired. And since I never used the wireless feature, I removed the PCMCIA wireless card inside. And proceeded to leave it running on my desk. Hmmm… No more disconnections.

Which reminds me of a similar case which happened in my office a few months ago. Our ADSL modem kept losing signal and disconnecting every 3~5 minutes. I called up the ISP, who immediately sent a technician down to do a line test. The technician didn’t have any problems and we concluded it was the modem that malfunctioned. We had it replaced and the problem was gone.

Perhaps my modem is failing too. Nice timing, I was going to upgrade my connection plan to a 10Mbps ADSL2+ line soon anyway.

I think overheating is causing the problems.

This morning when I came into the office, I noticed the earbuds of my earphones are being eaten off!! There’s no clue of what the suspect is… Perhaps termites? I immediately discarded the cardboard box that my earphones were resting on…

I just received a replacement for my debit card that’s expiring this October. To make it valid, the cardholder must sign on the back of the card.

Now for the past 3~4 years since I graduated, I haven’t used a pen / pencil for more than 10 minutes. So nowadays when I try to write some notes, it takes a lot of strength and effort and my handwriting is very ugly.

I guess that’s what you get for being a web developer / gamer where the keyboard is a good friend of yours. (´д｀)

So I spent 30 minutes last night practicing my signature again and again but I still couldn’t sign the way I used to.

Haha, a few days ago when dining at Cafe Cartel with my mum and her friend, when I went to pay the bill using my debit mastercard, I had to sign on the receipt and my signature was so ugly it’s definitely obviously different from the back of my debit card. But the cashier did not bother to verify my signature.